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She has also earned awards from the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Society of Environmental Journalists.\r\n\r\nHer videos for KQED have also aired on NOVA scienceNOW and the PBS NewsHour, and appeared on NPR.org.\r\n\r\nAs an independent filmmaker, she produced and directed the hour-long documentary \u003ca href=\"http://lpbp.org/beautiful-sin-qa-with-producer-gabriela-quiros/\">\u003cem>Beautiful Sin\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, about the surprising story of how Costa Rica became the only country in the world to outlaw in vitro fertilization. The film aired in 2015 on public television stations throughout the U.S., and in Costa Rica.\r\n\r\nShe started her journalism career as a newspaper reporter in Costa Rica, where she grew up. She won the National Science Journalism Award there for a series of articles about organic agriculture, and developed a life-long interest in health reporting. 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(Photo: Alison van Diggelen/Fresh Dialogues)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley is well known for being the cradle of tech innovation, but its largest city, San Jose, wants to claim the title as the world center of \u003cem>cleantech\u003c/em> innovation too. In 2007, the city launched its \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2737\">green vision\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> a 15 year road map to make San Jose one of the nation’s greenest. City leaders have just released a report card on their ten ambitious goals at the one third marker. Let’s take a look at their green progress; and its impact on the local economy and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Green mayor, green building\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Chuck Reed sits in a sunny corner office on the 18\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> floor of San Jose’s City Hall, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/825\">\u003cstrong>first city hall in the nation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> to achieve a platinum certification, the highest green building award. He’s looking through a new report on how the city is doing. Five years after announcing his ambitious green vision plan, the city is on track to reach \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2743\">\u003cstrong>its goal of creating 25,000 new cleantech jobs\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50410\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 169px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-50410\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/San-Jose-City-Hall-Tower-169x253.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose's City Hall received its LEED Platinum Certification from the US Green Building Council in 2009. It incorporates abundant natural light to reduce the need for electric lights. (Photo credit: City of San Jose) \" width=\"169\" height=\"253\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose's City Hall received its LEED Platinum Certification from the US Green Building Council in 2009. It incorporates abundant natural light to reduce the need for electric lights. (Photo credit: City of San Jose)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We started down this road trying to tie the environment and the economy together. So having 10,000 cleantech jobs is a big plus,” Reed says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation’s 10\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> largest city has nine other goals, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2950\">\u003cstrong>one to divert 100% of its trash\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> from landfills. San Jose is currently diverting 73% of its trash. This compares to \u003ca href=\"http://sfmayor.org/index.aspx?recordid=113&page=846\">\u003cstrong>San Francisco’s reported figure\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of 80%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already a plastic bag ban in San Jose has reduced bag litter by 89% in the storm drain system and the city council is \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2013/02/25/116850/san_jose_city_council_may_ban_polystyrene?category=science\">moving toward banning Styrofoam\u003c/a> containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ambitious Goals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of San Jose’s most ambitious goals is \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2948\">\u003cstrong>to get \u003cem>all\u003c/em> of its electricity from renewable energy\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. With 10 years to go before the deadline, it’s reached just over 20% and needs to accelerate progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s going to mean radical changes, but this is a valley that does things in radical ways,” says Carl Guardino,\u003cem> \u003c/em>president of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG), which represents hundreds of local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley and San Jose Mayor Reed sets audacious goals,” adds Guardino. “If we fall a little short, just think of how far we would have come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose has helped change national standards for\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://ca-sanjose.civicplus.com/index.aspx?NID=1898\">LED street lights\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and is now saving thousands of dollars using efficient, dimmable street lights. Yet it’s only replaced 4% of its 62,000 lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Using other people’s money\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite making progress, it’s been a tough road through the recession. Like most U.S. cities, San Jose has faced severe budget constraints and was forced to be innovative in funding its green vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has managed to leverage more than $100 Million in federal tax credits and private and public funds to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said \u003ca href=\"http://www.freshdialogues.com/2008/11/11/chuck-reed-californias-green-mayor-welcomes-obamas-green-tech-focus/\">from the beginning\u003c/a> that the key to being able to succeed with our green vision was to work with other people’s money,” says Mayor Reed, who is known for his pragmatism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, it helps to be located in the center of one of the country’s most innovative regions, according to Kim Walesh, director of economic development for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50384\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 252px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-50384\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/IMG_4145-252x253.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Walesh, Director of economic development at the City of San Jose explains how the city's location within the Silicon Valley ecosystem offers strategic advantages for economic growth and innovation. (Photo: Alison van Diggelen/Fresh Dialogues\" width=\"252\" height=\"253\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Walesh, Director of economic development at the City of San Jose explains how the city's location within the Silicon Valley ecosystem offers strategic advantages for economic growth and innovation. (Photo: Alison van Diggelen/Fresh Dialogues)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Being the large anchor city in Silicon Valley, we are remarkably open to new ideas, to thinking differently and we’re scrappy, so we know how to pull resources together toward a common goal and leverage, leverage, leverage,” says Walesh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has certainly leveraged its sunny climate. \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiasolarstatistics.ca.gov/reports/locale_stats/\">\u003cstrong>According to state regulators\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, San Jose has installed more solar panels on its private and public buildings than any other California city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Southern California sun doesn’t hold a candle to our aggressive goals for solar installations in sunny San Jose,” says a jubilant Walesh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The challenge of higher hanging fruit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others, like Megan Medeiros with the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club, paint a less rosy picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Jose has already picked off the low hanging fruit of their green vision,” says Medeiros, who feels the city has prioritized productivity before efficiency\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d like to see a lot more energy\u003cem> efficiency\u003c/em> measures like green building taking place. So far, the city has only built, or retrofitted, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2949\">\u003cstrong>13% of its goal of 50 Million square feet\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of green (private and public) buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose is doing better with its efforts to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2947\">\u003cstrong>cut per capita energy use in half\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>; it’s 25% of the way to its goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medeiros suggests San Jose adopt Palo Alto’s \u003cem>carbon neutral\u003c/em> goal or try to take the lead in alternative transportation like San Francisco has with its popular car share communities and mass transit system. But San Jose has had some success with its own public fleet of vehicles: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2953\">\u003cstrong>40% now run on alternative fuels\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medeiros would like to see San Jose building more pedestrian and bicycle paths and planting more trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50388\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 337px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-50388\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/IMG_4157-337x253.jpg\" alt=\"Megan Medeiros, Development Manager at the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club says San Jose needs to make it easy for people to get around on foot, bicycle and by public transportation. (Photo: Alison van Diggelen/Fresh Dialogues)\" width=\"337\" height=\"253\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Megan Medeiros, Development Manager at the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club says San Jose needs to make it easy for people to get around on foot, bicycle and by public transportation. (Photo: Alison van Diggelen/Fresh Dialogues)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If it did that, it could be attracting a lot of younger people who, Medeiros says, are “flocking to San Francisco” because it provides them with a better quality of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The economic impact of green\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But SVLG’s Carl Guardino praises cities such as San Jose that have taken big steps toward more sustainable economic growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both San Jose and San Francisco, they have taken tremendous strides, along with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57569425/bloomberg-pushes-green-agenda-in-final-nyc-state-of-the-city/\">Mayor Bloomberg in New York\u003c/a>, in being on the cutting edge of innovation, of the green economy, working as a public sector to bolster private sector success,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose’s Kim Walesh points out that cleantech jobs are an important new driver of the local economy. She cites last year’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/publications.taf?function=detail&ID=38801388\">\u003cstrong>Milken Institute report\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, which described the San Jose metro area as the nation’s number one performing city in terms of jobs and wage growth - thanks to its innovative tech culture. The San Francisco metro region ranked 36.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not a splashy city that makes a lot of announcements,” says Walesh. “We’re a city of idea generators who also implement. We can talk about the green vision, but we’re really walking the green vision and we’re making some progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking to the future, San Jose city officials are abuzz about this summer’s opening of its \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/7402\">\u003cstrong>Cleantech Innovation Center\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. It’s a partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and will offer a demonstration center for cleantech startups to test, showcase and speed commercialization of their green products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To see all of San Jose’s green goals and how it’s measuring up, check out San Jose’s \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/13270\">\u003cstrong>Green Vision Progress Report\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> for 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Jose is trying to lead the country in clean tech innovation. So how is the city doing?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1443824191,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":1303},"headData":{"title":"San Jose's Green Vision Helps Spur Silicon Valley Economic Growth | KQED","description":"San Jose is trying to lead the country in clean tech innovation. So how is the city doing?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"50370 http://science.kqed.org/quest/?post_type=audio_reports&p=50370","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2013/03/15/san-joses-green-vision-helps-spur-silicon-valley-economic-growth/","disqusTitle":"San Jose's Green Vision Helps Spur Silicon Valley Economic Growth","path":"/quest/50370/san-joses-green-vision-helps-spur-silicon-valley-economic-growth","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/quest/2013/03/20130318science.mp3","audioDuration":null,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"audioLink","attributes":{"named":{"src":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/quest/2013/03/20130318science.mp3"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50438\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/Mayor-Reed-solar-panel-cells.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-50438\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/Mayor-Reed-solar-panel-cells.jpg\" alt=\"Chuck Reed, named ‘Green Mayor” by former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, shows off solar cells designed by local companies.\" width=\"640\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/Mayor-Reed-solar-panel-cells.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/Mayor-Reed-solar-panel-cells-400x218.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chuck Reed, named ‘Green Mayor” by former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, shows off solar cells designed by local companies. (Photo: Alison van Diggelen/Fresh Dialogues)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley is well known for being the cradle of tech innovation, but its largest city, San Jose, wants to claim the title as the world center of \u003cem>cleantech\u003c/em> innovation too. In 2007, the city launched its \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2737\">green vision\u003c/a>,\u003c/strong> a 15 year road map to make San Jose one of the nation’s greenest. City leaders have just released a report card on their ten ambitious goals at the one third marker. Let’s take a look at their green progress; and its impact on the local economy and the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Green mayor, green building\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Chuck Reed sits in a sunny corner office on the 18\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> floor of San Jose’s City Hall, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/825\">\u003cstrong>first city hall in the nation\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> to achieve a platinum certification, the highest green building award. He’s looking through a new report on how the city is doing. Five years after announcing his ambitious green vision plan, the city is on track to reach \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2743\">\u003cstrong>its goal of creating 25,000 new cleantech jobs\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50410\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 169px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-50410\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/San-Jose-City-Hall-Tower-169x253.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose's City Hall received its LEED Platinum Certification from the US Green Building Council in 2009. It incorporates abundant natural light to reduce the need for electric lights. (Photo credit: City of San Jose) \" width=\"169\" height=\"253\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose's City Hall received its LEED Platinum Certification from the US Green Building Council in 2009. It incorporates abundant natural light to reduce the need for electric lights. (Photo credit: City of San Jose)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We started down this road trying to tie the environment and the economy together. So having 10,000 cleantech jobs is a big plus,” Reed says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nation’s 10\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> largest city has nine other goals, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2950\">\u003cstrong>one to divert 100% of its trash\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> from landfills. San Jose is currently diverting 73% of its trash. This compares to \u003ca href=\"http://sfmayor.org/index.aspx?recordid=113&page=846\">\u003cstrong>San Francisco’s reported figure\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of 80%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already a plastic bag ban in San Jose has reduced bag litter by 89% in the storm drain system and the city council is \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2013/02/25/116850/san_jose_city_council_may_ban_polystyrene?category=science\">moving toward banning Styrofoam\u003c/a> containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ambitious Goals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of San Jose’s most ambitious goals is \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2948\">\u003cstrong>to get \u003cem>all\u003c/em> of its electricity from renewable energy\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. With 10 years to go before the deadline, it’s reached just over 20% and needs to accelerate progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s going to mean radical changes, but this is a valley that does things in radical ways,” says Carl Guardino,\u003cem> \u003c/em>president of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG), which represents hundreds of local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley and San Jose Mayor Reed sets audacious goals,” adds Guardino. “If we fall a little short, just think of how far we would have come.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose has helped change national standards for\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://ca-sanjose.civicplus.com/index.aspx?NID=1898\">LED street lights\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and is now saving thousands of dollars using efficient, dimmable street lights. Yet it’s only replaced 4% of its 62,000 lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Using other people’s money\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite making progress, it’s been a tough road through the recession. Like most U.S. cities, San Jose has faced severe budget constraints and was forced to be innovative in funding its green vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has managed to leverage more than $100 Million in federal tax credits and private and public funds to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said \u003ca href=\"http://www.freshdialogues.com/2008/11/11/chuck-reed-californias-green-mayor-welcomes-obamas-green-tech-focus/\">from the beginning\u003c/a> that the key to being able to succeed with our green vision was to work with other people’s money,” says Mayor Reed, who is known for his pragmatism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, it helps to be located in the center of one of the country’s most innovative regions, according to Kim Walesh, director of economic development for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50384\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 252px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-50384\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/IMG_4145-252x253.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Walesh, Director of economic development at the City of San Jose explains how the city's location within the Silicon Valley ecosystem offers strategic advantages for economic growth and innovation. (Photo: Alison van Diggelen/Fresh Dialogues\" width=\"252\" height=\"253\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Walesh, Director of economic development at the City of San Jose explains how the city's location within the Silicon Valley ecosystem offers strategic advantages for economic growth and innovation. (Photo: Alison van Diggelen/Fresh Dialogues)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Being the large anchor city in Silicon Valley, we are remarkably open to new ideas, to thinking differently and we’re scrappy, so we know how to pull resources together toward a common goal and leverage, leverage, leverage,” says Walesh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has certainly leveraged its sunny climate. \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiasolarstatistics.ca.gov/reports/locale_stats/\">\u003cstrong>According to state regulators\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, San Jose has installed more solar panels on its private and public buildings than any other California city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Southern California sun doesn’t hold a candle to our aggressive goals for solar installations in sunny San Jose,” says a jubilant Walesh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The challenge of higher hanging fruit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others, like Megan Medeiros with the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club, paint a less rosy picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Jose has already picked off the low hanging fruit of their green vision,” says Medeiros, who feels the city has prioritized productivity before efficiency\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’d like to see a lot more energy\u003cem> efficiency\u003c/em> measures like green building taking place. So far, the city has only built, or retrofitted, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2949\">\u003cstrong>13% of its goal of 50 Million square feet\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of green (private and public) buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose is doing better with its efforts to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2947\">\u003cstrong>cut per capita energy use in half\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>; it’s 25% of the way to its goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medeiros suggests San Jose adopt Palo Alto’s \u003cem>carbon neutral\u003c/em> goal or try to take the lead in alternative transportation like San Francisco has with its popular car share communities and mass transit system. But San Jose has had some success with its own public fleet of vehicles: \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=2953\">\u003cstrong>40% now run on alternative fuels\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medeiros would like to see San Jose building more pedestrian and bicycle paths and planting more trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_50388\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 337px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-50388\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/IMG_4157-337x253.jpg\" alt=\"Megan Medeiros, Development Manager at the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club says San Jose needs to make it easy for people to get around on foot, bicycle and by public transportation. (Photo: Alison van Diggelen/Fresh Dialogues)\" width=\"337\" height=\"253\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Megan Medeiros, Development Manager at the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club says San Jose needs to make it easy for people to get around on foot, bicycle and by public transportation. (Photo: Alison van Diggelen/Fresh Dialogues)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If it did that, it could be attracting a lot of younger people who, Medeiros says, are “flocking to San Francisco” because it provides them with a better quality of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The economic impact of green\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But SVLG’s Carl Guardino praises cities such as San Jose that have taken big steps toward more sustainable economic growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both San Jose and San Francisco, they have taken tremendous strides, along with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57569425/bloomberg-pushes-green-agenda-in-final-nyc-state-of-the-city/\">Mayor Bloomberg in New York\u003c/a>, in being on the cutting edge of innovation, of the green economy, working as a public sector to bolster private sector success,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose’s Kim Walesh points out that cleantech jobs are an important new driver of the local economy. She cites last year’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/publications.taf?function=detail&ID=38801388\">\u003cstrong>Milken Institute report\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>, which described the San Jose metro area as the nation’s number one performing city in terms of jobs and wage growth - thanks to its innovative tech culture. The San Francisco metro region ranked 36.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not a splashy city that makes a lot of announcements,” says Walesh. “We’re a city of idea generators who also implement. We can talk about the green vision, but we’re really walking the green vision and we’re making some progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking to the future, San Jose city officials are abuzz about this summer’s opening of its \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/7402\">\u003cstrong>Cleantech Innovation Center\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. 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The bones of this juvenile Columbian mammoth were found along the Guadalupe River.\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been my first experience working with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdm.org\">Children’s Discovery Museum\u003c/a>, or any other museum, in developing an exhibit,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/about/profile.php?lastname=Maguire&firstname=Kaitlin+Clare\">Kaitlin Maguire\u003c/a>, graduate student at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/\">UC Museum of Paleontology\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s been working with the Children’s Discovery Museum (CDM), for the past two years as a consultant for their upcoming exhibit, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdm.org/mammoth/teaser.asp\">\u003cem>Mammoth Discovery!\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, that opens on Saturday, June 11th. The exhibit features a replica of the full skeleton of a juvenile Columbian mammoth, Lupe, named after the Guadalupe River \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/mammoth/\">where she was found\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was brought in to provide the content about mammoths and the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/video/ice-age-bay-area2\">history of San Jose during the Ice Age\u003c/a>. And so my role has been providing information to the staff here so that they could create the exhibits. That includes little things like what was the vegetation like during the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene\">Pleistocene\u003c/a> to how old Lupe was, how big [she] was. And also helping with brainstorming to fabrication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaitlin also led the staff on three trips to give them an idea of how a paleontologist works in the field.Two of the excursions spanned the coast from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, where they examined invertebrate fossils, such as shells, and also vertebrate fossils, such as whales and seals and sea lions. They also traveled to Del Puerto Canyon for their third field trip, where they studied terrestrial deposits, or land deposits, that contained fish and plant material. “On each of these field trips, I showed the staff the tools that I use: hammers, picks, notebooks. I also taught them the geology of the area, so they understood the rocks that they were looking at. And I taught them about the animals that they were looking at. In addition, I showed them the proper way to collect a fossil, proper way to document it. Basically everything from start to finish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s learned quite a lot from her experiences of working with CDM. “It’s been an incredible experience to understand how an exhibit is built from the brainstorming phase all the way through to fabrication, and the amount of thought to detail, the amount of testing that’s required. I will never go to a museum again and not think twice about the amount of work that went behind building that exhibit. I also have a really, a great appreciation for this museum in keeping everything accurate and unique and true to the story that this mammoth provides us and really staying true to the evidence that is provided by the mammoth and creating a wonderful experience for the children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch “Science on the SPOT: Lupe the Mammoth Comes to Life” on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/video/lupe-the-mammoth-comes-to-life\">QUEST\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0\" classid=\"D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-\n<br /><a href=\" http:>QUEST on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/\">KQED\u003c/a> Public Media.\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note: In the video, Kaitlin says Lupe is between 2-3 years old. To clarify, “She’s older than 2 or 3 years old but probably not older than 10. 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The bones of this juvenile Columbian mammoth were found along the Guadalupe River.\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been my first experience working with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdm.org\">Children’s Discovery Museum\u003c/a>, or any other museum, in developing an exhibit,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/about/profile.php?lastname=Maguire&firstname=Kaitlin+Clare\">Kaitlin Maguire\u003c/a>, graduate student at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/\">UC Museum of Paleontology\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s been working with the Children’s Discovery Museum (CDM), for the past two years as a consultant for their upcoming exhibit, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdm.org/mammoth/teaser.asp\">\u003cem>Mammoth Discovery!\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, that opens on Saturday, June 11th. The exhibit features a replica of the full skeleton of a juvenile Columbian mammoth, Lupe, named after the Guadalupe River \u003ca href=\"http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/mammoth/\">where she was found\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was brought in to provide the content about mammoths and the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/video/ice-age-bay-area2\">history of San Jose during the Ice Age\u003c/a>. And so my role has been providing information to the staff here so that they could create the exhibits. That includes little things like what was the vegetation like during the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene\">Pleistocene\u003c/a> to how old Lupe was, how big [she] was. And also helping with brainstorming to fabrication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaitlin also led the staff on three trips to give them an idea of how a paleontologist works in the field.Two of the excursions spanned the coast from San Francisco to Santa Cruz, where they examined invertebrate fossils, such as shells, and also vertebrate fossils, such as whales and seals and sea lions. They also traveled to Del Puerto Canyon for their third field trip, where they studied terrestrial deposits, or land deposits, that contained fish and plant material. “On each of these field trips, I showed the staff the tools that I use: hammers, picks, notebooks. I also taught them the geology of the area, so they understood the rocks that they were looking at. And I taught them about the animals that they were looking at. In addition, I showed them the proper way to collect a fossil, proper way to document it. Basically everything from start to finish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s learned quite a lot from her experiences of working with CDM. “It’s been an incredible experience to understand how an exhibit is built from the brainstorming phase all the way through to fabrication, and the amount of thought to detail, the amount of testing that’s required. I will never go to a museum again and not think twice about the amount of work that went behind building that exhibit. I also have a really, a great appreciation for this museum in keeping everything accurate and unique and true to the story that this mammoth provides us and really staying true to the evidence that is provided by the mammoth and creating a wonderful experience for the children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch “Science on the SPOT: Lupe the Mammoth Comes to Life” on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/video/lupe-the-mammoth-comes-to-life\">QUEST\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cobject type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0\" classid=\"D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-\n<br /><a href=\" http:>QUEST on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/\">KQED\u003c/a> Public Media.\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Note: In the video, Kaitlin says Lupe is between 2-3 years old. To clarify, “She’s older than 2 or 3 years old but probably not older than 10. Paleontologists are not sure of her exact age but do know that she was a juvenile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> 37.3272226 -121.8931137\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/quest/14839/lupe-the-mammoth-comes-to-life","authors":["2100"],"categories":["quest_4"],"tags":["quest_3509","quest_655","quest_3567","quest_1133","quest_3644","quest_1727","quest_2115","quest_2493","quest_3807","quest_3809"],"featImg":"quest_14845","label":"quest"},"quest_13629":{"type":"posts","id":"quest_13629","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"quest","id":"13629","score":null,"sort":[1302205915000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"geological-outings-around-the-bay-alum-rock-park","title":"Geological Outings Around the Bay: Alum Rock Park","publishDate":1302205915,"format":"standard","headTitle":"QUEST | KQED Science","labelTerm":{"site":"quest"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"left\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alumrocksig2.jpg\" alt=\"hot springs\" class=\"alignleft size-full\">\u003cem>\u003csup>Mineral springs, fresh air, and a cross-section of South Bay history—not to mention its rocks—are all on display at Alum Rock Park. All photos by Andrew Alden.\u003c/sup>\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sjparks.org/regional/alumrock.asp\">Alum Rock Park\u003c/a> occupies the small, steep valley of Penitencia Creek carved into the hills east of San Jose. The city has owned it since 1872, when it became California's first city park. For a generation it was a major regional attraction for its warm mineral springs and the entertainment complex surrounding them, of which only traces remain today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today it's a great place to get away from the city's hustle while pretending you're still at the office (except on Mondays, when it's closed). But if you put away the phone and pay attention to your surroundings, Alum Rock Park can show you some of San Jose's deep history and the Bay Area's rocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If nothing else, the park provides good views to the west over the Santa Clara Valley from its higher trails. You can choose from a warm south-facing slope and a cool north-facing one, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alumrockview2.jpg\" alt=\"santa clara valley view\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Have a look at the geologic map of the area (from \u003ca href=\"http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1998/of98-795/\">USGS Open-File Map 98-795\u003c/a>) below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alumrockmap2.png\" alt=\"alum rock park geologic map\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Penitencia Creek comes downhill from the right center and exits on the lower left. The park entrance is right at the edge of bedrock (Kbc, conglomerate of the Berryessa Formation), and the uppermost parking area is at the Tcc (Claremont Formation) mark. Hiking trails run along both sides of the creek giving you a good look at all the rock units from the park entrance to the Briones Formation (Tbr) on the right. Let's see some, starting with the conglomerate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alumrockcong2.jpg\" alt=\"conglomerate\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This very coarse grained rock and its related sandstone in the Berryessa Formation are part of the Great Valley Sequence, thick beds of sedimentary rock built up while the Sierra Nevada was intruding all that granite, back around 100 million years ago in Cretaceous time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind the boulder is Eagle Rock, which corresponds to the pinkish blob surrounded by landslides to the right of the \"Kbc\" label. You can climb up there or stroll through the other outcrop labeled Jbk. The rock itself is well-traveled volcanic material that has been permeated and altered by hot mineralizing fluids. Here's a chunk of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alum-rock2.jpg\" alt=\"alum rock\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The large outcrop along the creek gives the park its name. An early visitor mistook the whitish crust on these rocks as alum, which would have been a nice find at the time. It's actually sulfate minerals, but the name stuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther upstream, just past the visitor center, is where the mineral spring zone begins. On the geologic map, it corresponds to the exposure of Claremont Formation (Tcc), a belt of ribbon chert of Miocene age (about 10 million years) familiar in the East Bay Hills. Here the chert is dark with organic matter and its beds are upturned almost to vertical. That combination of chemistry and structure has given rise to warm upwellings of chemically interesting groundwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alumrocksprings2.jpg\" alt=\"alum rock springs\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are more than 20 different springs here, each with a nice stone housing. The ones I dipped my fingers into were bathtub-warm, and the water is sulfur-scented. A hundred years ago Alum Rock Park was a big health spa, with a rail line direct from downtown. That was when the stonework was done. You can see where seepage has built up cones of minerals on the lower wall. All of the springs issue from the Claremont chert—here's a closeup of the chert and the mineral crust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alumchert2.jpg\" alt=\"chert and crust\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all that excitement you may want to continue upstream, into the structurally overlying and younger Briones Formation. This set of rocks is coarser grained than the Claremont, deposited nearer to shore. The other way to look at it is that the shoreline grew closer to this spot as geologic time progressed. This is a well-scrubbed outcrop in the stream bed that shows its bedding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alumbrionescrop2.jpg\" alt=\"briones formation\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parts of the Briones are so full of fossils that the rock is best described as shell hash. You'll see this same stone at Lime Ridge in Walnut Creek and other places in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alumbrioneshash2.jpg\" alt=\"shell hash\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This whole belt of rocks lies in the zone where the Hayward fault merges with the Calaveras fault. On the map above, the Calaveras runs down the right edge of the Briones Formation, between the Calaveras and Anderson Reservoirs. The Hayward fault formally ends a few miles northwest, but the many smaller faults marked as heavy lines are of the same ilk and reflect the same tectonics. Friction along the faults may account for the warmth of the springs, just one more way that the deep Earth affects us in our region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also check out QUEST's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/quest/exploration/alum-rock-exploration\">Alum Rock Science Hike\u003c/a> for more info.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> 37.397 -121.798\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A hundred years ago Alum Rock Park was a big health spa, with a rail line direct from downtown to the warm mineral springs. Today the springs still run among the upturned rocks between the Hayward and Calaveras faults.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1311134621,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":818},"headData":{"title":"Geological Outings Around the Bay: Alum Rock Park | KQED","description":"","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"13629 http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/?p=13629","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2011/04/07/geological-outings-around-the-bay-alum-rock-park/","disqusTitle":"Geological Outings Around the Bay: Alum Rock Park","path":"/quest/13629/geological-outings-around-the-bay-alum-rock-park","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"left\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alumrocksig2.jpg\" alt=\"hot springs\" class=\"alignleft size-full\">\u003cem>\u003csup>Mineral springs, fresh air, and a cross-section of South Bay history—not to mention its rocks—are all on display at Alum Rock Park. All photos by Andrew Alden.\u003c/sup>\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sjparks.org/regional/alumrock.asp\">Alum Rock Park\u003c/a> occupies the small, steep valley of Penitencia Creek carved into the hills east of San Jose. The city has owned it since 1872, when it became California's first city park. For a generation it was a major regional attraction for its warm mineral springs and the entertainment complex surrounding them, of which only traces remain today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today it's a great place to get away from the city's hustle while pretending you're still at the office (except on Mondays, when it's closed). But if you put away the phone and pay attention to your surroundings, Alum Rock Park can show you some of San Jose's deep history and the Bay Area's rocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If nothing else, the park provides good views to the west over the Santa Clara Valley from its higher trails. You can choose from a warm south-facing slope and a cool north-facing one, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alumrockview2.jpg\" alt=\"santa clara valley view\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Have a look at the geologic map of the area (from \u003ca href=\"http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1998/of98-795/\">USGS Open-File Map 98-795\u003c/a>) below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alumrockmap2.png\" alt=\"alum rock park geologic map\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Penitencia Creek comes downhill from the right center and exits on the lower left. The park entrance is right at the edge of bedrock (Kbc, conglomerate of the Berryessa Formation), and the uppermost parking area is at the Tcc (Claremont Formation) mark. Hiking trails run along both sides of the creek giving you a good look at all the rock units from the park entrance to the Briones Formation (Tbr) on the right. Let's see some, starting with the conglomerate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alumrockcong2.jpg\" alt=\"conglomerate\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This very coarse grained rock and its related sandstone in the Berryessa Formation are part of the Great Valley Sequence, thick beds of sedimentary rock built up while the Sierra Nevada was intruding all that granite, back around 100 million years ago in Cretaceous time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind the boulder is Eagle Rock, which corresponds to the pinkish blob surrounded by landslides to the right of the \"Kbc\" label. You can climb up there or stroll through the other outcrop labeled Jbk. The rock itself is well-traveled volcanic material that has been permeated and altered by hot mineralizing fluids. Here's a chunk of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alum-rock2.jpg\" alt=\"alum rock\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The large outcrop along the creek gives the park its name. An early visitor mistook the whitish crust on these rocks as alum, which would have been a nice find at the time. It's actually sulfate minerals, but the name stuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther upstream, just past the visitor center, is where the mineral spring zone begins. On the geologic map, it corresponds to the exposure of Claremont Formation (Tcc), a belt of ribbon chert of Miocene age (about 10 million years) familiar in the East Bay Hills. Here the chert is dark with organic matter and its beds are upturned almost to vertical. That combination of chemistry and structure has given rise to warm upwellings of chemically interesting groundwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alumrocksprings2.jpg\" alt=\"alum rock springs\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are more than 20 different springs here, each with a nice stone housing. The ones I dipped my fingers into were bathtub-warm, and the water is sulfur-scented. A hundred years ago Alum Rock Park was a big health spa, with a rail line direct from downtown. That was when the stonework was done. You can see where seepage has built up cones of minerals on the lower wall. All of the springs issue from the Claremont chert—here's a closeup of the chert and the mineral crust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alumchert2.jpg\" alt=\"chert and crust\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After all that excitement you may want to continue upstream, into the structurally overlying and younger Briones Formation. This set of rocks is coarser grained than the Claremont, deposited nearer to shore. The other way to look at it is that the shoreline grew closer to this spot as geologic time progressed. This is a well-scrubbed outcrop in the stream bed that shows its bedding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alumbrionescrop2.jpg\" alt=\"briones formation\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parts of the Briones are so full of fossils that the rock is best described as shell hash. You'll see this same stone at Lime Ridge in Walnut Creek and other places in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2011/04/alumbrioneshash2.jpg\" alt=\"shell hash\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This whole belt of rocks lies in the zone where the Hayward fault merges with the Calaveras fault. On the map above, the Calaveras runs down the right edge of the Briones Formation, between the Calaveras and Anderson Reservoirs. The Hayward fault formally ends a few miles northwest, but the many smaller faults marked as heavy lines are of the same ilk and reflect the same tectonics. Friction along the faults may account for the warmth of the springs, just one more way that the deep Earth affects us in our region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also check out QUEST's \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/quest/exploration/alum-rock-exploration\">Alum Rock Science Hike\u003c/a> for more info.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> 37.397 -121.798\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/quest/13629/geological-outings-around-the-bay-alum-rock-park","authors":["6228"],"categories":["quest_11"],"tags":["quest_3454","quest_3492","quest_3507","quest_3528","quest_3535","quest_3405","quest_1325","quest_1374","quest_3669","quest_2493","quest_3800"],"featImg":"quest_13638","label":"quest"},"quest_6845":{"type":"posts","id":"quest_6845","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"quest","id":"6845","score":null,"sort":[1280352304000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"chevy-volt-and-nissan-leaf-star-at-san-jose-electric-car-convention","title":"Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf Star at San Jose Electric Car Convention","publishDate":1280352304,"format":"video","headTitle":"QUEST | KQED Science","labelTerm":{"site":"quest"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Originally reported for \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/\">KQEDnews.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After years of stops and starts, electric cars and plug-in hybrids are on the cusp of a new era of mainstream acceptance, starting this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the message this week from automakers, government officials and utility operators at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.plugin2010.com/\">Plug-In 2010\u003c/a> conference, a major international gathering of alternative vehicles at the San Jose Convention Center. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now the rubber hits the road”, said Craig Childers, an air resources engineer with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/homepage.htm\">California Air Resources Board\u003c/a>. “This is the last conference where we don’t have the cars. When we do this again next year, there’s going to be thousands of people driving these cars and it’s going to be great to see how that happens. We’ll learn from it and continue to evolve.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6853\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2010/07/plugincar3001.jpg\" alt=\"The 2011 Chevy Volt at the 2010 Plug-In Conference.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6853\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2011 Chevy Volt at the 2010 Plug-In Conference \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A large amount of attention at the event went to two vehicles: the battery electric \u003ca href=\"http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/index#/leaf-electric-car/index\">Nissan Leaf\u003c/a> and the Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid. Both groundbreaking cars will begin appearing in showrooms in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s conference, GM announced the Volt’s sticker price will be $41,000. A federal tax credit will bring the cost of the vehicle down by $7,500. The Volt also be available to lease for $350 a month for 36 months, assuming a down payment of $2,500. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GM calls the Volt an “extended-range electric vehicle,” which means that the car can go 40 miles on a single battery charge, using no gasoline. An additional 300 miles can be driven as the car uses gasoline to power an on-board generator to make more electricity and power the engine. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Pasowatz, the Volt’s Vehicle Line Director, said that distance is key for getting consumers to overcome their “range anxiety” and trust that the Volt will get them where they need to go without being stranded with an empty battery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Volt gives you an extended range capability that no other electric vehicle can provide you,” Pasowatz said. “So we have a good, solid confident proposition of 340 miles, whereas many electric cars will not achieve the range that they claim because their range is on a city cycle which no one drives, it doesn’t account for running the heating and air conditioning, and it doesn’t account for the degradation of the battery. And if you really only get 50 miles, the question is can that be your everyday car?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nissan Leaf, an all-electric vehicle, which has a range of 100 miles on a single charge, will be made available to consumers by December in five states initially, including California.\u003cbr>\nTo date, there have been 20,000 pre-orders for the Nissan Leaf, with more than 3,000 of those orders coming from prospective buyers in the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6881\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 299px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2010/07/Plug-In_-046b_version23.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Perry from Nissan standing next to the Leaf, an all electric-vehicle.\" width=\"299\" height=\"207\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6881\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Perry from Nissan standing next to the Leaf, an all electric-vehicle. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Mark Perry, Director of Product Planning at Nissan, the consumer acceptance of the new generation of electric cars in the state resonates nation-wide. “If there was a barrier to adoption called affordability, that’s been knocked over. If there was a barrier to adoption called charging infrastructure, it’s been knocked over here in CA. There are no barriers now. The entire country is looking at California as a lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Leaf will cost $32,780, but after the federal tax credit of $7,500, and a California state rebate of $5,000 – which the Volt is not eligible for – the actual price will be $20,280. The Leaf also will be eligible for drivers to take into California’s carpool lanes without having more than one passenger, while the Volt will not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginny and John Pauksta of San Jose paid $99 to reserve a Leaf. “The tipping point for me was the BP oil spill, the frustration of what we’re doing to the environment,” said John Pauksta. “It made me very angry. The fact that we’re fighting wars to protect our oil reserves just got to me. Electric cars were like toys, like glorified golf cars and now major car companies are coming out with electric cars that look like real cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can fit five people in it and haul stuff around and the driving range is within a level of tolerance”, added Pauksta, who commutes 44 miles daily to his job in Palo Alto. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of the lead acid and nickel-metal hydride batteries that powered the first generation of electric cars like GM’s EV1 in the 1990s, today’s electric car batteries are made of lithium-ion cells, which are now small enough that they can be easily assembled into battery packs and charged using a simple 120-volt outlet, as Pasowatz did with his Chevy Volt, charging it overnight at the conference center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the purchase of a Volt, consumers will get a 120-volt portable charge cord set and the option of GM’s 240-volt cord set, which would cut the charging of the vehicle in half, from eight hours to four hours. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apart from the advancements in battery technology, a perfect storm of factors seems to brewing to usher in a new, more hospitable climate for electric cars, experts at the event, which runs through Thursday, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The technology is moving ahead. The recognition of getting off of oil is important and I think the car is part of the larger energy environment ecosystem, it’s come to that realization that it is time to solve these problems in a systemic way”, said Pasowatz. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Air Resources Board, there are roughly 20,000 pure electric vehicles in California, including roughly 15,000 small neighborhood electric vehicles that aren’t designed to drive on highways. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities, regulatory agencies and environmental organizations expect those numbers to rise as long as gas prices continue to be high, which makes electricity as a fuel source a particularly attractive option. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gasoline is about $3, plus or minus, per gallon,” said Sunil Chhaya, a senior manager at the \u003ca href=\"http://my.epri.com/portal/server.pt?%5D%5B\">Electric Power Research Institute\u003c/a> in Palo Alto. ”Electricity is about 75 cents per gallon, so when you compare operating costs per mile, it’s about a fourth or a fifth the cost of gasoline.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the economy improves and worldwide demand for oil grows, gasoline prices may not stay at the current level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not sure what gasoline prices are going to look like in the next five to 10 years and it’s widely expected that those will get on an upward trajectory again and start climbing up and beyond four a gallon,” said Childers. “In that case, we’re talking about a very big price difference for electricity. We actually need that because these electric cars are more expensive to build and buy and the only way consumers can afford it is by saving money on fuel.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, California’s grid, with its mix of hydroelectric power, nuclear power and renewables like solar and wind power, is also cleaner than the nation’s grid -- which relies more heavily on power from coal-fired plants. So environmental benefits accrue when drivers plug-in to the grid to charge their vehicles. Chhaya said that “50 to 60 percent of the CO2 emissions can be reduced by using a battery electric vehicle plugged into the state’s grid.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, a big factor for consumers is the sticker price of electric cars. Palo Alto-based Tesla motors offers currently only one electric vehicle line, its sporty Roadster that retails for more than $100,000. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Availability of public charging stations has also been a challenge. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, however, Campbell-based Coulomb Technologies received a $37 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to build 4,600 charging stations in nine metro areas, including San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento and Los Angeles by September 2011. The charging stations will also feature a new connecting standard adopted in January by the Society of Automotive Engineers so that any electric car can be charged at the charging stations. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For consumers like Kadife Besir-Dunlap, a schoolteacher from Woodland, neither the Chevy Volt nor the Nissan Leaf can compare to her beloved EV1 which was reclaimed by GM in 2002 when her two-year lease expired and GM refused to renew the lease for her or other EV1 owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Volt is a plug-in, it’s not full electric,” she said. “The car of the future is powered by the fuels of Jurassic time. My frustration is renewed right now. GM could have produced another electric vehicle. They had the technology and a really nice car with the EV1 and they could have reproduced something like that, a more affordable full electric car. 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When we do this again next year, there’s going to be thousands of people driving these cars and it’s going to be great to see how that happens. We’ll learn from it and continue to evolve.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6853\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2010/07/plugincar3001.jpg\" alt=\"The 2011 Chevy Volt at the 2010 Plug-In Conference.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6853\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2011 Chevy Volt at the 2010 Plug-In Conference \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A large amount of attention at the event went to two vehicles: the battery electric \u003ca href=\"http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/index#/leaf-electric-car/index\">Nissan Leaf\u003c/a> and the Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid. Both groundbreaking cars will begin appearing in showrooms in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s conference, GM announced the Volt’s sticker price will be $41,000. A federal tax credit will bring the cost of the vehicle down by $7,500. The Volt also be available to lease for $350 a month for 36 months, assuming a down payment of $2,500. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GM calls the Volt an “extended-range electric vehicle,” which means that the car can go 40 miles on a single battery charge, using no gasoline. An additional 300 miles can be driven as the car uses gasoline to power an on-board generator to make more electricity and power the engine. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Pasowatz, the Volt’s Vehicle Line Director, said that distance is key for getting consumers to overcome their “range anxiety” and trust that the Volt will get them where they need to go without being stranded with an empty battery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Volt gives you an extended range capability that no other electric vehicle can provide you,” Pasowatz said. “So we have a good, solid confident proposition of 340 miles, whereas many electric cars will not achieve the range that they claim because their range is on a city cycle which no one drives, it doesn’t account for running the heating and air conditioning, and it doesn’t account for the degradation of the battery. And if you really only get 50 miles, the question is can that be your everyday car?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nissan Leaf, an all-electric vehicle, which has a range of 100 miles on a single charge, will be made available to consumers by December in five states initially, including California.\u003cbr>\nTo date, there have been 20,000 pre-orders for the Nissan Leaf, with more than 3,000 of those orders coming from prospective buyers in the Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_6881\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 299px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2010/07/Plug-In_-046b_version23.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Perry from Nissan standing next to the Leaf, an all electric-vehicle.\" width=\"299\" height=\"207\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6881\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Perry from Nissan standing next to the Leaf, an all electric-vehicle. \u003ccite>(Sheraz Sadiq)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Mark Perry, Director of Product Planning at Nissan, the consumer acceptance of the new generation of electric cars in the state resonates nation-wide. “If there was a barrier to adoption called affordability, that’s been knocked over. If there was a barrier to adoption called charging infrastructure, it’s been knocked over here in CA. There are no barriers now. The entire country is looking at California as a lead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Leaf will cost $32,780, but after the federal tax credit of $7,500, and a California state rebate of $5,000 – which the Volt is not eligible for – the actual price will be $20,280. The Leaf also will be eligible for drivers to take into California’s carpool lanes without having more than one passenger, while the Volt will not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ginny and John Pauksta of San Jose paid $99 to reserve a Leaf. “The tipping point for me was the BP oil spill, the frustration of what we’re doing to the environment,” said John Pauksta. “It made me very angry. The fact that we’re fighting wars to protect our oil reserves just got to me. Electric cars were like toys, like glorified golf cars and now major car companies are coming out with electric cars that look like real cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can fit five people in it and haul stuff around and the driving range is within a level of tolerance”, added Pauksta, who commutes 44 miles daily to his job in Palo Alto. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of the lead acid and nickel-metal hydride batteries that powered the first generation of electric cars like GM’s EV1 in the 1990s, today’s electric car batteries are made of lithium-ion cells, which are now small enough that they can be easily assembled into battery packs and charged using a simple 120-volt outlet, as Pasowatz did with his Chevy Volt, charging it overnight at the conference center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the purchase of a Volt, consumers will get a 120-volt portable charge cord set and the option of GM’s 240-volt cord set, which would cut the charging of the vehicle in half, from eight hours to four hours. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apart from the advancements in battery technology, a perfect storm of factors seems to brewing to usher in a new, more hospitable climate for electric cars, experts at the event, which runs through Thursday, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The technology is moving ahead. The recognition of getting off of oil is important and I think the car is part of the larger energy environment ecosystem, it’s come to that realization that it is time to solve these problems in a systemic way”, said Pasowatz. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Air Resources Board, there are roughly 20,000 pure electric vehicles in California, including roughly 15,000 small neighborhood electric vehicles that aren’t designed to drive on highways. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities, regulatory agencies and environmental organizations expect those numbers to rise as long as gas prices continue to be high, which makes electricity as a fuel source a particularly attractive option. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gasoline is about $3, plus or minus, per gallon,” said Sunil Chhaya, a senior manager at the \u003ca href=\"http://my.epri.com/portal/server.pt?%5D%5B\">Electric Power Research Institute\u003c/a> in Palo Alto. ”Electricity is about 75 cents per gallon, so when you compare operating costs per mile, it’s about a fourth or a fifth the cost of gasoline.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the economy improves and worldwide demand for oil grows, gasoline prices may not stay at the current level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not sure what gasoline prices are going to look like in the next five to 10 years and it’s widely expected that those will get on an upward trajectory again and start climbing up and beyond four a gallon,” said Childers. “In that case, we’re talking about a very big price difference for electricity. We actually need that because these electric cars are more expensive to build and buy and the only way consumers can afford it is by saving money on fuel.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, California’s grid, with its mix of hydroelectric power, nuclear power and renewables like solar and wind power, is also cleaner than the nation’s grid -- which relies more heavily on power from coal-fired plants. So environmental benefits accrue when drivers plug-in to the grid to charge their vehicles. Chhaya said that “50 to 60 percent of the CO2 emissions can be reduced by using a battery electric vehicle plugged into the state’s grid.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, a big factor for consumers is the sticker price of electric cars. Palo Alto-based Tesla motors offers currently only one electric vehicle line, its sporty Roadster that retails for more than $100,000. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Availability of public charging stations has also been a challenge. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, however, Campbell-based Coulomb Technologies received a $37 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to build 4,600 charging stations in nine metro areas, including San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento and Los Angeles by September 2011. The charging stations will also feature a new connecting standard adopted in January by the Society of Automotive Engineers so that any electric car can be charged at the charging stations. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For consumers like Kadife Besir-Dunlap, a schoolteacher from Woodland, neither the Chevy Volt nor the Nissan Leaf can compare to her beloved EV1 which was reclaimed by GM in 2002 when her two-year lease expired and GM refused to renew the lease for her or other EV1 owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Volt is a plug-in, it’s not full electric,” she said. “The car of the future is powered by the fuels of Jurassic time. My frustration is renewed right now. GM could have produced another electric vehicle. They had the technology and a really nice car with the EV1 and they could have reproduced something like that, a more affordable full electric car. A hybrid car is not progress, it’s stagnation.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the tow truck took away her family’s EV1, Besir-Dunlap has been driving an all-electric Toyota RAV4. 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The Orange County Water District thinks so. In February of this year it opened its advanced water treatment plant, which produces 50 million gallons of potable water per day. It took them 13 years to finish the project. They spent a lot of that time educating consumers. Of course the idea of drinking water that was once used for other less savory purposes than drinking is an unpleasant thought. So Orange County's water district took its educational campaign very seriously. They went to great lengths to explain that the wastewater is cleaned to the point where it meets state and federal drinking water standards and then put through an extra filtration step, which consists of dumping it into a lake with a sandy basin and letting it filter into the aquifers. (This is why they call the project the Groundwater Replenishment System). As part of its outreach, the district even got Orange County's Bishop Jaime Soto to record positive comments about the project and posted the \u003ca href=\"http://www.gwrsystem.com/about/soto.html\">video\u003c/a> on its Web site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, projects to use recycled wastewater aren't as advanced. Still, John Stufflebean, director of environmental services for the City of San José, says it’s in the cards for San José. The city has started its own educational effort. Stufflebean is one of the city officials that give regular \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/esd/plantmasterplan/tour-reservations.asp\">guided tours of the San José/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant\u003c/a> in northern San José. The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/video/state-of-thirst-californias-water-future\">process really is quite a sight\u003c/a>. The gray and smelly raw wastewater comes in on one end, and at the end of a three-step process -- once again clean and transparent -- either trickles back into the Bay or is used to irrigate golf courses and farms. Stufflebean says that people on the tour often ask why this water can’t be used for drinking. With some additional steps, it could. Stay tuned. Perhaps in the future it will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Could the future of potable water in California be in recycling wastewater? ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1457837426,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":4,"wordCount":342},"headData":{"title":"Producer's Notes: California's Water Future | KQED","description":"Could the future of potable water in California be in recycling wastewater? 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Of course the idea of drinking water that was once used for other less savory purposes than drinking is an unpleasant thought. So Orange County's water district took its educational campaign very seriously. They went to great lengths to explain that the wastewater is cleaned to the point where it meets state and federal drinking water standards and then put through an extra filtration step, which consists of dumping it into a lake with a sandy basin and letting it filter into the aquifers. (This is why they call the project the Groundwater Replenishment System). As part of its outreach, the district even got Orange County's Bishop Jaime Soto to record positive comments about the project and posted the \u003ca href=\"http://www.gwrsystem.com/about/soto.html\">video\u003c/a> on its Web site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here in the Bay Area, projects to use recycled wastewater aren't as advanced. Still, John Stufflebean, director of environmental services for the City of San José, says it’s in the cards for San José. The city has started its own educational effort. Stufflebean is one of the city officials that give regular \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/esd/plantmasterplan/tour-reservations.asp\">guided tours of the San José/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant\u003c/a> in northern San José. The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/video/state-of-thirst-californias-water-future\">process really is quite a sight\u003c/a>. The gray and smelly raw wastewater comes in on one end, and at the end of a three-step process -- once again clean and transparent -- either trickles back into the Bay or is used to irrigate golf courses and farms. Stufflebean says that people on the tour often ask why this water can’t be used for drinking. With some additional steps, it could. Stay tuned. Perhaps in the future it will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/quest/698/producers-notes-californias-water-future","authors":["6186"],"categories":["quest_5","quest_6","quest_8","quest_9","quest_3422","quest_3233","quest_11766"],"tags":["quest_285","quest_438","quest_684","quest_883","quest_1093","quest_1278","quest_3351","quest_2141","quest_2387","quest_2493","quest_2504","quest_3106"],"featImg":"quest_699","label":"quest"},"quest_485":{"type":"posts","id":"quest_485","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"quest","id":"485","score":null,"sort":[1206476245000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"falcon-fascination-update","title":"Falcon Fascination Update","publishDate":1206476245,"format":"video","headTitle":"QUEST | KQED Science","labelTerm":{"site":"quest"},"content":"\u003cp>The remarkable Peregrine Falcons of the Bay Area are making news again. Last year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/view/467\" target=\"_blank\">we followed Jose and Clara\u003c/a>, a mating pair that settled directly on San Jose City Hall. Thanks to the efforts of the \u003ca href=\"http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group\u003c/a>, a webcam was set up to follow the family's development. Bay Area viewers watched online as all three of their chicks, Hiko, Spirit and Esperanza, fledged last June. Since then, two of them have been spotted in the Emeryville area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_488\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2008/03/clara21.jpg\" alt=\"Clara soars over San Jose\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-full wp-image-488\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clara soars over San Jose \u003ccite>(Evet Loewen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, Clara is back in the City Hall nest box, but early rumors proved true: she had found a new companion. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/falconer/falconry/glossary.htm\" target=\"_blank\">tiercel\u003c/a> (male falcon) was dubbed \"Carlos\" and it was soon discovered that the bird was likely \u003ca href=\"http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/hacksite.htm\" target=\"_blank\">hacked\u003c/a> (released) at Long Marine Lab in Santa Cruz. The pair is now incubating 4 eggs and their fans are hoping the eggs will hatch by the end of April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like last year, you can watch the family drama unfold on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">live San Jose webcam\u003c/a> or take a look at \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/23930319@N03/\" target=\"_blank\">some of the highlights so far\u003c/a>. Both fans and biologists have an \u003ca href=\"http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/SanJosePeregrines/\" target=\"_blank\">online discussion group\u003c/a> that tracks their every move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The remarkable Peregrine Falcons of the Bay Area are making news again.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1457974104,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":5,"wordCount":203},"headData":{"title":"Falcon Fascination Update | KQED","description":"The remarkable Peregrine Falcons of the Bay Area are making news again.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"485 http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2008/03/25/falcon-fascination-update/","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2008/03/25/falcon-fascination-update/","disqusTitle":"Falcon Fascination Update","videoEmbed":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywzQ-8ZPQxk","path":"/quest/485/falcon-fascination-update","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The remarkable Peregrine Falcons of the Bay Area are making news again. Last year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/view/467\" target=\"_blank\">we followed Jose and Clara\u003c/a>, a mating pair that settled directly on San Jose City Hall. Thanks to the efforts of the \u003ca href=\"http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group\u003c/a>, a webcam was set up to follow the family's development. Bay Area viewers watched online as all three of their chicks, Hiko, Spirit and Esperanza, fledged last June. Since then, two of them have been spotted in the Emeryville area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_488\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2008/03/clara21.jpg\" alt=\"Clara soars over San Jose\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-full wp-image-488\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clara soars over San Jose \u003ccite>(Evet Loewen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, Clara is back in the City Hall nest box, but early rumors proved true: she had found a new companion. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/falconer/falconry/glossary.htm\" target=\"_blank\">tiercel\u003c/a> (male falcon) was dubbed \"Carlos\" and it was soon discovered that the bird was likely \u003ca href=\"http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/hacksite.htm\" target=\"_blank\">hacked\u003c/a> (released) at Long Marine Lab in Santa Cruz. The pair is now incubating 4 eggs and their fans are hoping the eggs will hatch by the end of April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just like last year, you can watch the family drama unfold on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">live San Jose webcam\u003c/a> or take a look at \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/23930319@N03/\" target=\"_blank\">some of the highlights so far\u003c/a>. Both fans and biologists have an \u003ca href=\"http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/SanJosePeregrines/\" target=\"_blank\">online discussion group\u003c/a> that tracks their every move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/quest/485/falcon-fascination-update","authors":["239"],"categories":["quest_9","quest_17","quest_3422","quest_3233"],"tags":["quest_1061","quest_3351","quest_2141","quest_2155","quest_2493","quest_2893","quest_3131"],"featImg":"quest_488","label":"quest"},"quest_470":{"type":"posts","id":"quest_470","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"quest","id":"470","score":null,"sort":[1205472090000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"its-not-easy-going-green-2","title":"It's Not Easy Going Green","publishDate":1205472090,"format":"audio","headTitle":"QUEST | KQED Science","labelTerm":{"site":"quest"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"left\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/audio/view/786\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2008/03/radio2-23_going_green300.jpg\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Image source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpatrick/\">Michael Patrick\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/span>Many Bay Area cities are trying to clean up their acts by putting in place new green initiatives. But from San Jose to Berkeley, some city leaders are finding out it's not always so easy to turn over a new leaf. QUEST looks at the challenges municipalities face with budget constraints, legal restrictions and reluctance, on the part of some residents, to change. Marjorie Sun reports.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan class=\"left\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/audio/view/786\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/images/radio_icon_light.gif\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>You may \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/audio/view/786\">listen to the \"It's Not Easy Going Green\" Radio report\u003c/a> online, as well as find additional links and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"left\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/imp/icon_andreak.jpg\">\u003c/span>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Andrea Kissack\u003c/strong> is Senior Editor for QUEST at KQED Public Radio.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1205472090,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":4,"wordCount":105},"headData":{"title":"It's Not Easy Going Green | KQED","description":"Image source: Michael PatrickMany Bay Area cities are trying to clean up their acts by putting in place new green initiatives. 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But from San Jose to Berkeley, some city leaders are finding out it's not always so easy to turn over a new leaf. QUEST looks at the challenges municipalities face with budget constraints, legal restrictions and reluctance, on the part of some residents, to change. Marjorie Sun reports.\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cspan class=\"left\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/audio/view/786\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/images/radio_icon_light.gif\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>You may \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/audio/view/786\">listen to the \"It's Not Easy Going Green\" Radio report\u003c/a> online, as well as find additional links and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"left\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/imp/icon_andreak.jpg\">\u003c/span>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Andrea Kissack\u003c/strong> is Senior Editor for QUEST at KQED Public Radio.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/quest/470/its-not-easy-going-green-2","authors":["212"],"categories":["quest_9"],"tags":["quest_252","quest_308","quest_3351","quest_1586","quest_2257","quest_2332","quest_2471","quest_2493"],"label":"quest"},"quest_15145":{"type":"posts","id":"quest_15145","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"quest","id":"15145","score":null,"sort":[1204946632000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"alum-rock-exploration","title":"Exploring Alum Rock Park","publishDate":1204946632,"format":"aside","headTitle":"QUEST | KQED Science","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.everytrail.com/guide/alum-rock-exploration/map?%20embed=true\" width=\"980\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp align=\"right\">\u003cem>This Exploration created in collaboration with the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.exploratorium.edu\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/imp/explo_logo_black3.gif\" border=\"0\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Alum Rock: Where geologic history bubbles up from the ground\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003c/span>Just a few minutes outside of San Jose, you'll find a place to explore 100 million years of history. Alum Rock Park, created in 1872 as the first municipal park in California, offers both ancient rocks and new geologic changes (and lots of nice trails and wildlife, too). Despite its longevity and proximity to a populous urban area, it remains one of the less-visited jewels in the Bay Area's crown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Location\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>16240 Penitencia Creek Road\u003cbr>\nSan Jose, CA 95127 \u003ca href=\"http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&address=16240+Alum+Rock+Ave.&city=San+Jose&state=CA&zipcode=95127\" target=\"_blank\">[Map]\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n408-259-5477\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/imp/overview.jpg\">\u003c/span>The lush Penitencia Creek, which bisects the Park, flows year-round. Once home to the Ohlone Indians, Alum Rock Park features rugged ridges with spectacular views of the Santa Clara Valley, geologic formations including mineral springs and evidence of seismic events, and a variety of native flora and fauna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park hours are daily from 8am until one-half hour after sunset.\u003cbr>\nParking: $6\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Youth Science Institute\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Founded in Alum Rock Park in 1953, Youth Science Institute provides year-round school and public programs and interpretive services in the Park, thanks to a long-term partnership with the City of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YSI is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that partners with nature to teach science to 33,000 pre-school through 12th grade students throughout Silicon Valley each year. YSI school programs, after-school programs, and summer camps fill the gap that is present in science education today to inspire in students enthusiasm for science and love of learning, to develop the critical thinking skills they need for academic success, and to forge connections with nature that foster their personal health and earth stewardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YSI has two additional Science and Nature Centers at Sanborn Park in Saratoga and Vasona Lake Park in Los Gatos. Each Center is open to the public and features live animals and interactive exhibits, as well as year-round programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ysi-ca.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Youth Science Institute\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n16260 Penitencia Creek Road\u003cbr>\nSan Jose, CA 95127\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Open All Year, Tuesday – Sunday, 12:00 noon – 4:00 PM or by appointment.\u003cbr>\n(Closed on Sunday from October-April)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Special thanks to the City of San Jose’s Alum Rock Park Staff, and to YSI Staff John Harshman, Dorothy (DJ) Johnson, Bonnie LeMat and Susanne Mulcahy for their participation in this Exploration.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Robin Marks and Lauren Sommer contributed to this Exploration.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Remnants of Volcanic Days\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/imp/strata.jpg\">\u003c/span>These rocks layers, once stacked on each other vertically, now lie on their sides in the creek, evidence of Alum Rock's tectonic history. Alum Rock got its name from a powder that coats some of the rocks in the park, which early visitors to the area mistakenly thought was alum. That powder is, in fact, made of sulfur, gypsum, and other substances, and it’s a hint to the area’s volcanic history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other clues to Alum Rock’s geologic activity abound, some more obvious than others. Perhaps most notable are the springs you’re likely to spot shortly after you come in. Bubbling up from underground, the water is warmed by heat that still remains in the earth from the volcanoes that were once active here. Stop at any of the small shelters that house \"faucets\" of these springs, and you’ll get a whiff of the sulfur and other aromatic minerals that have dissolved into the hot water as it flows up from the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hike around the grounds and you'll encounter some of the other, more subtle evidence of the park's busy geology, as well as take in its bountiful wildlife offerings. Central to the hiking trails is a canyon, which hosts a creek (some of it in the form of those bubbling mineral springs) running through it. Granite and sandstone boulders populate the canyon, having been washed down from the hilltops above, evidence of powerful storm activity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many twisted landscapes in northern California, the rock layers in these hillsides are chronologically upside-down, with the youngest swaths at the bottom, the oldest on the top. That’s the result of the steady crunching of tectonic plates over millions of years, folding the earth's crust over on itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>One Canyon, many Climates\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/imp/leafy.jpg\">\u003c/span>Leafy trees, soft mosses, and other water-loving plants populate the riparian area next to the creek. The resulting topography and the mineral springs of Alum Rock lend the park a variety of niches and microenvironments. Spend a day exploring, and you'll see that the canyon sides boast different habitats, owing to the different climates of their north- and south-facing slopes. Forests with oak, sycamore, and other large trees populate the damper, shadier north-facing sides. Deeper in the canyon, the trees are joined by ferns and horsetails, which soak up the moisture of the creek. On the drier south-facing slopes, low bushes, shrubs, and grasses make a scrubby chaparral. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These numerous environments provide inviting homes for a huge array of critters, from the small and squiggly to the large and furry. The relatively unpolluted stream teems with insects that often become the subjects of study (and squeamishness) for students at the nearby \u003ca href=\"http://www.ysi-ca.org/\">Youth Science Institute\u003c/a>. Even the algae growing on rocks among the springs are enticing, sporting a rainbow of colors that reflect the minerals in their watery habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park's bird populations, which change with the seasons, also make it popular with the binocular set. Golden eagles and red-shouldered hawks are spotted regularly, along with hundreds of other species. And it's not unusual to see a deer or even a bobcat wander by the trail: the park's large acreage and moderate number of visitors mean that wildlife rules here. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nature Springs Anew\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/imp/alum_baths.jpg\">\u003c/span>During the park's past life as a spa, bathers would settle into soaking pools like this one, hoping to gain some medicinal benefit from the spring's mineral waters. The ambiance of the park as a nature reserve is actually a somewhat recent development. Alum Rock, known until a century ago as \"the reservation,\" has thrived as a popular outdoor playground since the early 1800s, even while ownership of the land comprising it shifted from Spain to Mexico to the U.S. With its many mineral springs, Alum Rock became a fashionable spa of sorts, eventually hosting a huge indoor swimming pool, private baths, concessions, a bandstand, and a restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the mid-1800s until just decades ago, people flocked to Alum Rock from around the country to soak in the park’s warm mineral waters, which many claimed had medicinal benefits. Some Sundays, as many as 10,000 visitors were swarm Alum Rock’s hillsides and hot pools. The park had so many visitors that, by the early 70s, the native plants and animals were nearly overrun. In response, San Jose decided to return Alum Rock back to its more natural state. The city demolished the pool, removed many of the buildings, and closed some areas of the park. As a result, natural habitats in the park have flourished with the return of many species of birds, insects, and other wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As John Harshman, a teacher at the Youth Science Institute described it, \"Nature is about as undisturbed here as it can be in the middle of an urban area.\" Natural phenomena continue to exert forces of change on Alum Rock's landscape. The park’s original entrance was closed in 2000 due to a storm-induced landslide. And in October 2007, nearby residents were shaken by an earthquake centered just five miles from Alum Rock. As a result, one of its previously idle springs flowed back to life-- perhaps a reminder that nature can return to a place even when the potential for it seems to have dried up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nnvesj.org/Archives/ARPHistory.htm\">Alum Rock Park History, by Judy Thompson\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alum_Rock_Park\">Wikipedia: Alum Rock Park\u003c/a> served as sources for this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Events in Briones Regional Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Regional Park District offers a number of activities in Briones Regional Park and many other nearby parks. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Learn More About Wildlife\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you're interested in learning more about the wildlife of the East Bay, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebparks.org/parks/tilden/tna\" target=\"_blank\">Tilden Nature Area\u003c/a> Programs offers many options in Berkeley's Tilden Regional Park. Take a guided hike with a naturalist to search for the local flora and fauna, including the local California Newts. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Volunteer in Briones\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Briones Regional Park and many others rely on local volunteers to maintain the trails and do habitat restoration. There are even opportunities in their wildlife program. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebparks.org/about/getinvolved/volunteer\" target=\"_top\">Learn more about how to volunteer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Latest Visitor Photos\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Join the \u003ca href=\"http://flickr.com/groups/661897@N20\">Alum Rock Park photo group on Flickr\u003c/a> to share your photos of this amazing place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Additional Links\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sjparks.org/regional/alumrock.asp\">Alum Rock Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Just a few minutes outside of San Jose, you'll find a place to explore 100 million years of history. Alum Rock Park, created in 1872 as the first municipal park in California, offers both ancient rocks and new geologic changes (and lots of nice trails and wildlife, too). Despite its longevity and proximity to a populous urban area, it remains one of the less-visited jewels in the Bay Area's crown.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1450469695,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["http://www.everytrail.com/guide/alum-rock-exploration/map"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1472},"headData":{"title":"Exploring Alum Rock Park | KQED","description":"","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"15145 http://science.kqed.org/quest/science-hike/alum-rock-exploration/","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2008/03/07/alum-rock-exploration/","disqusTitle":"Exploring Alum Rock Park","source":"Science Hike","sourceUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/quest/tag/science-hike/","path":"/quest/15145/alum-rock-exploration","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.everytrail.com/guide/alum-rock-exploration/map?%20embed=true\" width=\"980\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp align=\"right\">\u003cem>This Exploration created in collaboration with the \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://www.exploratorium.edu\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/imp/explo_logo_black3.gif\" border=\"0\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Alum Rock: Where geologic history bubbles up from the ground\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003c/span>Just a few minutes outside of San Jose, you'll find a place to explore 100 million years of history. Alum Rock Park, created in 1872 as the first municipal park in California, offers both ancient rocks and new geologic changes (and lots of nice trails and wildlife, too). Despite its longevity and proximity to a populous urban area, it remains one of the less-visited jewels in the Bay Area's crown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Location\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>16240 Penitencia Creek Road\u003cbr>\nSan Jose, CA 95127 \u003ca href=\"http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&address=16240+Alum+Rock+Ave.&city=San+Jose&state=CA&zipcode=95127\" target=\"_blank\">[Map]\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n408-259-5477\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/imp/overview.jpg\">\u003c/span>The lush Penitencia Creek, which bisects the Park, flows year-round. Once home to the Ohlone Indians, Alum Rock Park features rugged ridges with spectacular views of the Santa Clara Valley, geologic formations including mineral springs and evidence of seismic events, and a variety of native flora and fauna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park hours are daily from 8am until one-half hour after sunset.\u003cbr>\nParking: $6\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Youth Science Institute\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Founded in Alum Rock Park in 1953, Youth Science Institute provides year-round school and public programs and interpretive services in the Park, thanks to a long-term partnership with the City of San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YSI is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that partners with nature to teach science to 33,000 pre-school through 12th grade students throughout Silicon Valley each year. YSI school programs, after-school programs, and summer camps fill the gap that is present in science education today to inspire in students enthusiasm for science and love of learning, to develop the critical thinking skills they need for academic success, and to forge connections with nature that foster their personal health and earth stewardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YSI has two additional Science and Nature Centers at Sanborn Park in Saratoga and Vasona Lake Park in Los Gatos. Each Center is open to the public and features live animals and interactive exhibits, as well as year-round programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ysi-ca.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Youth Science Institute\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n16260 Penitencia Creek Road\u003cbr>\nSan Jose, CA 95127\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Open All Year, Tuesday – Sunday, 12:00 noon – 4:00 PM or by appointment.\u003cbr>\n(Closed on Sunday from October-April)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Special thanks to the City of San Jose’s Alum Rock Park Staff, and to YSI Staff John Harshman, Dorothy (DJ) Johnson, Bonnie LeMat and Susanne Mulcahy for their participation in this Exploration.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Robin Marks and Lauren Sommer contributed to this Exploration.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Remnants of Volcanic Days\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/imp/strata.jpg\">\u003c/span>These rocks layers, once stacked on each other vertically, now lie on their sides in the creek, evidence of Alum Rock's tectonic history. Alum Rock got its name from a powder that coats some of the rocks in the park, which early visitors to the area mistakenly thought was alum. That powder is, in fact, made of sulfur, gypsum, and other substances, and it’s a hint to the area’s volcanic history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other clues to Alum Rock’s geologic activity abound, some more obvious than others. Perhaps most notable are the springs you’re likely to spot shortly after you come in. Bubbling up from underground, the water is warmed by heat that still remains in the earth from the volcanoes that were once active here. Stop at any of the small shelters that house \"faucets\" of these springs, and you’ll get a whiff of the sulfur and other aromatic minerals that have dissolved into the hot water as it flows up from the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hike around the grounds and you'll encounter some of the other, more subtle evidence of the park's busy geology, as well as take in its bountiful wildlife offerings. Central to the hiking trails is a canyon, which hosts a creek (some of it in the form of those bubbling mineral springs) running through it. Granite and sandstone boulders populate the canyon, having been washed down from the hilltops above, evidence of powerful storm activity. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many twisted landscapes in northern California, the rock layers in these hillsides are chronologically upside-down, with the youngest swaths at the bottom, the oldest on the top. That’s the result of the steady crunching of tectonic plates over millions of years, folding the earth's crust over on itself. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>One Canyon, many Climates\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/imp/leafy.jpg\">\u003c/span>Leafy trees, soft mosses, and other water-loving plants populate the riparian area next to the creek. The resulting topography and the mineral springs of Alum Rock lend the park a variety of niches and microenvironments. Spend a day exploring, and you'll see that the canyon sides boast different habitats, owing to the different climates of their north- and south-facing slopes. Forests with oak, sycamore, and other large trees populate the damper, shadier north-facing sides. Deeper in the canyon, the trees are joined by ferns and horsetails, which soak up the moisture of the creek. On the drier south-facing slopes, low bushes, shrubs, and grasses make a scrubby chaparral. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These numerous environments provide inviting homes for a huge array of critters, from the small and squiggly to the large and furry. The relatively unpolluted stream teems with insects that often become the subjects of study (and squeamishness) for students at the nearby \u003ca href=\"http://www.ysi-ca.org/\">Youth Science Institute\u003c/a>. Even the algae growing on rocks among the springs are enticing, sporting a rainbow of colors that reflect the minerals in their watery habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park's bird populations, which change with the seasons, also make it popular with the binocular set. Golden eagles and red-shouldered hawks are spotted regularly, along with hundreds of other species. And it's not unusual to see a deer or even a bobcat wander by the trail: the park's large acreage and moderate number of visitors mean that wildlife rules here. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nature Springs Anew\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"right\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/imp/alum_baths.jpg\">\u003c/span>During the park's past life as a spa, bathers would settle into soaking pools like this one, hoping to gain some medicinal benefit from the spring's mineral waters. The ambiance of the park as a nature reserve is actually a somewhat recent development. Alum Rock, known until a century ago as \"the reservation,\" has thrived as a popular outdoor playground since the early 1800s, even while ownership of the land comprising it shifted from Spain to Mexico to the U.S. With its many mineral springs, Alum Rock became a fashionable spa of sorts, eventually hosting a huge indoor swimming pool, private baths, concessions, a bandstand, and a restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the mid-1800s until just decades ago, people flocked to Alum Rock from around the country to soak in the park’s warm mineral waters, which many claimed had medicinal benefits. Some Sundays, as many as 10,000 visitors were swarm Alum Rock’s hillsides and hot pools. The park had so many visitors that, by the early 70s, the native plants and animals were nearly overrun. In response, San Jose decided to return Alum Rock back to its more natural state. The city demolished the pool, removed many of the buildings, and closed some areas of the park. As a result, natural habitats in the park have flourished with the return of many species of birds, insects, and other wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As John Harshman, a teacher at the Youth Science Institute described it, \"Nature is about as undisturbed here as it can be in the middle of an urban area.\" Natural phenomena continue to exert forces of change on Alum Rock's landscape. The park’s original entrance was closed in 2000 due to a storm-induced landslide. And in October 2007, nearby residents were shaken by an earthquake centered just five miles from Alum Rock. As a result, one of its previously idle springs flowed back to life-- perhaps a reminder that nature can return to a place even when the potential for it seems to have dried up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nnvesj.org/Archives/ARPHistory.htm\">Alum Rock Park History, by Judy Thompson\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alum_Rock_Park\">Wikipedia: Alum Rock Park\u003c/a> served as sources for this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Events in Briones Regional Park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Regional Park District offers a number of activities in Briones Regional Park and many other nearby parks. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Learn More About Wildlife\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you're interested in learning more about the wildlife of the East Bay, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebparks.org/parks/tilden/tna\" target=\"_blank\">Tilden Nature Area\u003c/a> Programs offers many options in Berkeley's Tilden Regional Park. Take a guided hike with a naturalist to search for the local flora and fauna, including the local California Newts. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Volunteer in Briones\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Briones Regional Park and many others rely on local volunteers to maintain the trails and do habitat restoration. There are even opportunities in their wildlife program. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebparks.org/about/getinvolved/volunteer\" target=\"_top\">Learn more about how to volunteer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Latest Visitor Photos\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Join the \u003ca href=\"http://flickr.com/groups/661897@N20\">Alum Rock Park photo group on Flickr\u003c/a> to share your photos of this amazing place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Additional Links\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sjparks.org/regional/alumrock.asp\">Alum Rock Park\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/quest/15145/alum-rock-exploration","authors":["6166","10191"],"categories":["quest_9","quest_11"],"tags":["quest_13200","quest_1206","quest_1370","quest_3403","quest_3351","quest_2093","quest_2141","quest_2349","quest_13","quest_2486","quest_2493","quest_2530","quest_13434","quest_3404"],"featImg":"quest_15151","label":"source_quest_15145"},"quest_429":{"type":"posts","id":"quest_429","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"quest","id":"429","score":null,"sort":[1203364670000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"429","title":"The Tech Museum's Tech Challenge goes global","publishDate":1203364670,"format":"standard","headTitle":"QUEST | KQED Science","labelTerm":{"site":"quest"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Guest blogger Lisa Croel of The Tech Museum in San Jose, CA sits in for Dr. Barry Starr this week. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"left\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2008/02/blog_ww.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\nI remember loving science class as a kid. The paper-maché messes, the bubbling baking soda, all of the wonderful experiments... I loved it all. Now, many grammar school kids are lucky to get 15 minutes of science education a week. Hardly enough time to get them imagining future careers as scientists, engineers and inventors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the lack of time given to science education, and the structure imposed by curriculum standards, museums need to be part of the education equation. My boss has a saying: \"Give random a chance.\" I love this quote because it speaks to the role informal educational resources like science museums need to be playing. By exposing young people to the experiences and programs in a museum, who knows what might really resonate and inspire?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For over 20 years, The Tech's \u003ca href=\"http://techchallenge.thetech.org/\">Tech Challenge\u003c/a> program has presented kids with an open-ended problem for which there is no one right answer. It forces participants to use their knowledge and ingenuity to solve the problem. For example, this year the Challenge (called \u003ca href=\"http://techchallenge.thetech.org/the_challenge.cfm\">Water Works\u003c/a>) is all about moving water from a stream up to a village without electricity. There is no one right answer, and there are lots of ways to solve this problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participants are 5\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> to 12\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> graders who will work in teams of 2-6 to explore solutions to solving this real world problem. Along the way, they will hit some roadblocks and come up with some duds. And that's OK because it is here that kids will learn that failure is an important part of problem solving. We have a great quote etched into a wall on the outside of The Tech from Intel co-founder and philanthropist Gordon Moore that says, \"If everything you try works, you are not trying hard enough.\" Through failure, many of the Tech Challenge teams will come up with a far superior solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year we're going international for the first time by partnering with the City of San Jose's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjeconomy.com/sistercities/\">Sister City\u003c/a> program. On the final \u003ca href=\"http://techchallenge.thetech.org/schedule.cfm\">event day\u003c/a>, where all of the teams come together to present and demonstrate their solutions, we'll be webcasting in teams from far-away locations, and look forward to seeing and hearing how kids from other countries have tackled the challenge. Hopefully the involvement of other cultures will drive home how important it is to be inclusive to come up with better ways to solve problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just looked at the U.S. Census Bureau web site for the latest world population number, and today there are 6,650,846,379 people on Planet Earth. One in five people on Earth don't have access to safe, clean drinking water, which means that 1.3 billion people are suffering from lack of water. As this year's Tech Challenge participants work on solutions to a global water problem, I hope they get excited (or \u003cem>more\u003c/em> excited) about science and remain engaged, even they don't get to study it much in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Lisa Croel is the Marketing Director at \u003ca href=\"http://www.thetech.org/\">The Tech Museum of Innovation\u003c/a> in San Jose, \u003c/em>\u003cem>Calif.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1366918233,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":544},"headData":{"title":"The Tech Museum's Tech Challenge goes global | KQED","description":"Guest blogger Lisa Croel of The Tech Museum in San Jose, CA sits in for Dr. Barry Starr this week. I remember loving science class as a kid. 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